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award-winning Angus patient transport charity could collapse within weeks due to a shortage of volunteers.

Since 1981, Carnoustie Medical Transport Helpline (CMTH) has been driving locals to medical appointments and hospitals in Angus and Dundee. Its dedicated team has even taken folk as far as Glasgow.

Since 2000, volunteer drivers have completed more than 13,500 trips, but there are now not enough drivers or helpline operators to keep it going.

It is feared this could signal the end of the road for CMTH just months after passing its 40-year milestone.

Group treasurer and volunteer driver Tom McKay said: “If we can’t bring in new volunteers we could be looking at the end of the road within weeks.”

The service was originally set up as Carnoustie Community Care in 1981 by Dr Sandy McKendrick and Canon Douglas MacKay.

Anyone interested in volunteering to help the service survive should contact Tom McKay, pictured above – a volunteer driver, trustee and treasurer of the service – on 01241 852535.